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“I am not responsible for what other people think. I am responsible only for what I myself think, and I know what that is. No idea I've ever come up with has ever struck me as a divine revelation. Nothing I have ever observed leads me to think there is a God watching over me.”

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Book:Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine

Source: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine

“When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In such cases, people do not hold their opinions with passion; they hold them calmly, and set forth their reasons quietly. The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction.”

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Book:Sceptical Essays

Source: Sceptical Essays

“What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.”

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Author:Adolf Hitler

“The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought and action that will (they believe) cover everything; and then they try to impose that on all thinking people.”

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Book:Man's Unconquerable Mind

Source: Man's Unconquerable Mind

“...if one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.”

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Book:De rerum natura

Source: De rerum natura

“Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“People want to be at the center of the Universe...and they're going to flock to anybody who tells them that.”

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Author:Victor J. Stenger

“Woe to the people that fails to honor its heroes! It will cease producing them, cease knowing them. Heroes spring from the essence of their people. A people without heroes is a people without leaders, for only a heroic leader is a true leader able to withstand the challenge of difficult times.”

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Author:Rudolf Hess

“People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.”

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Author:Noah Weinberg

“...only we don't call it 'ignorance', we call it 'faith'. What a horrible little word that is - faith - exuding as it does its fake aura of purity and virtue while fronting some of the ugliest ideas this planet has ever seen. Closing people's hearts when it should be opening them. Making them proud of things they should be ashamed of. And ashamed of things they should be proud of.”

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Author:Pat Condell